Joe and Rose Kennedy's strikingly beautiful daughter
Rosemary
attended exlusive schools, was presented as a debutate to the queen
of England, and traveled the world with her high-spirited sisters.
Yet Rosemary was intellectually disabled, a secret fiercely guarded
by her powerful and glamorous family.

Kate Larson
reveals both the sensitive care Rose and Joe gave to
Rosemary and then—as the family's standing reached an
apex—the often desperate and duplicitous arrangements the
Kennedys made to keep her away from home as she became increasingly
difficult in her early twenties. Finally, Larson illuminates Joe's
decision to have Rosemary lobotomized at age twenty-three and the
family's complicity in keeping the secret.

Come and find more about this forgotten Kennedy daughter and the
impact she had in later life on her more famous siblings.